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The stories of some 400 innocent Americans who were falsely convicted of capital crimes.
This book is the first monograph to critically evaluate the work of the literary scholar René Girard from the perspectives of Law and Literature and Law and Film Studies, two of the most multidisciplinary branches of critical legal theory. The central thesis is that Girard’s theory of the scapegoat mechanism provides a wholly new and original means of re-conceptualizing the nature of judicial modernity, which is the belief that modern Law constitutes an internally coherent and exclusively secular form of rationality. The book argues that it is the archaic scapegoat mechanism – the reconciliation of the community through the direction of unified violence against a single victim – that ...
This book is about murder and mayhem: A Tortured Child: This book is about a little girl, Daija, that was tortured by her mom and her mom's boyfriend; A Horrible Crime: A young lady, Shelly, who was trusting and that trusting and because of her trusting, it didn't end well for Shelly; If Andrea Would Have Listened: Andrea, started hanging with the wrong crowd and it cost her. . .dearly; The Old Man: Three teenage boys hanging out, not going to school. All they do is play video games and get high. Rumor on the street was an old man that lived in the neighborhood had money. They broke into his home and it didn't end well; Mr. Ernest: Mr. Ernest is a widower and was dying of cancer. He was also...
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